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John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Predicting the weather is difficult. With varying pressures, planetary rotation and various other factors, weather systems on Earth border on chaos. But, believe it or not,...
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A Neptune, NJ Board Certified physician specializing in Surgery, Dr. Denise Johnson Miller, is a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for 2013. NEPTUNE, N.J., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., America's trusted source for identifying Top Doctors, has selected Neptune's Surgery specialist Dr. Denise Johnson Miller for inclusion in its highly selective list of Regional Top Doctors this year. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130507/DC09034 ) Castle...
World Volkswagen is announcing its large inventory to its shoppers along with specials and promotions that can help a shopper stay in any budgets. NEPTUNE, New Jersey (PRWEB) May 06, 2013 NJ car dealers may bring the newest and most popular models to their shoppers, but World Volkswagen goes a step further and makes sure its inventories are fully stocked for its shoppers. With new and pre-owned Volkswagen models available, shoppers can come to the dealership and find the model they want...
A Paint the Town Pink Event Presented by Meridian Cancer Care NEPTUNE, N.J., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Meridian Health is pleased to present "Little Things: An Evening with Giuliana and Bill Rancic" at the Algonquin Arts Theatre in Manasquan on May 4, 2013 as part of Paint the Town Pink, a month-long event designed to raise awareness of the importance of annual mammography. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130411/DC93306 ) At this signature event,...
Of the different NJ car dealers, World Volkswagen is more than excited to announce the all-new Volkswagen Beetle Convertible with its customers. NEPTUNE, New Jersey (PRWEB) April 03, 2013 NJ car dealers may offer the best of their brands, and that is exactly what World Volkswagen of Neptune is excited to offer its shoppers. With the all-new 2013 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible available, fans of the brand should know about the new upgrades and new options they can expect when they visit a...
Kraken is the solution to medication monitoring NEPTUNE, N.J., Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly 50% of the prescriptions written every year in the United States aren't taken as directed - or at all. As an increasing number of patients refuse to comply with their own physician's medication guidelines, so spikes our country's number of acute care and nursing home admissions, physician visits - and a cost to America that's currently estimated by the New England...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may in fact be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding the surprising star called TW Hydrae may be massive enough to make even more planets than we have in our own solar system. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The findings were made using the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Telescope, a mission in which NASA is a...
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential securities fraud at Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. ("Neptune" or the "Company") (NasdaqCM: NEPT). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120119/MM38856LOGO ) The investigation focuses on whether the Company and its executives violated federal securities laws by failing to disclose issues with Neptune's Sherbrooke, Quebec...
NEPTUNE, N.J., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Meridian Health is pleased to announce the formation of the Richard Hader Institute for Clinical Integration. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/DC39483) "Meridian is recognized regionally and nationally for its outstanding clinical care," explains John K. Lloyd, FACHE, president of Meridian Health. "After years of research and the dedication of resources, we developed a very successful multidisciplinary...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A rare glimpse of a "Super Jupiter" has been caught while the planet was circling around its host star with a mass 2.5 times that of our Sun. Astronomers, led by Joseph Carson (College of Charleston and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) and using the Subaru Telescope, were able to capture an image of the planet around the massive star K Andromedae. Only a few exoplanets have ever been captured in actual astronomical images,...
[ Watch the Video: What is Uranus? ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Uranus is coming into more focus than ever with a new technique developed by astronomers and applied at the Keck Observatory. Astronomers reported at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences meeting that they have taken high-resolution infrared images of Uranus, revealing detail of the planet's bizarre weather. The latest details of the seventh planet from the Sun...
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Otto Wilhelm von Struve (May 7, 1819 "“ April 14, 1905) was a Russian astronomer of Baltic German descent. He is one of many renowned astronomers in his family. Struve was born the son of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, in Tartu, Estonia. He had two sons, Hermann and Ludwig Struve. Otto Willhelm von Struve assisted his director father at the Pulkovo Observatory and succeeded him as director until 1889. He also continued his father's footsteps in discovering double...
Retrograde Motion -- Retrograde motion is the orbital motion of a body in a direction opposite that which is normal to spatial bodies within a given system. 'Retrograde' derives from the Latin words retro, backwards, and gradus, step. In the Solar system, mostly everything rotates in the same sense: all major planets orbit the Sun counterclockwise as seen from the pole star (Polaris). Most planets spin in the same sense, including Earth. The same happens with the orbital motions of the...
Planet -- A planet is a body of considerable mass that orbits a star and that doesn't produce energy through nuclear fusion. Until recently, only nine were known (all of them in our own Solar system). As of the end of 2002 over 100 are known, with all of the new discoveries being extrasolar planets. Astronomers often call asteroids minor planets, and call the larger planetary bodies (those which are commonly called planets) major planets. Planets within the solar system can be...
Gas Giant -- A gas giant is a generic astronomical term invented by the science fiction writer James Blish to describe any large planet that is not composed mostly of rock or other solid matter. Gas giants may still have a solid core - in fact, it is expected that such a core is probably required for a gas giant to form - but the majority of its mass is in the form of gas (or gas compressed into a liquid state). Unlike rocky planets, gas giants do not have a well-defined surface. There...
The Solar System refers to the area in space that is dominated by our own Sun. It is comprised of the Sun and its associated astronomical objects that are held in its gravitational orbit. The Solar System was formed as a result of the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The mass of this system is located almost entirely in the Sun. Apart from the Sun, a high percentage of the remainder of the system’s mass is located in the eight solitary planets that...
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